Re: Y2K

Alan Modra (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au)
Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:15:13 +0930 (CST)


On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Rogier Wolff wrote:

> This is not true. The question is: since when is THIS code snippet
> in the linux kernel?
>
> linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c: get_cmos_time:
>
> if ((year += 1900) < 1970)
> year += 100;

Since around July 94, when I added it as part of a patch to fix Linux for
the silly half-hour timezone we have here in South Australia. The patch
was against kernel 1.1.17, so I think kernels 1.1.18 and above were Y2K
compliant.

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